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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

Posted by timothy on from the now-with-improved-goodness dept.

Triumph The Insult C writes "FreeBSD 4.7 is out. Here is the announcement. New items include an option for IPFW2, a number of disk controller updates, security updates, and some changes to userland. Remember, please use a mirror." Among other things, the release announcement says: "FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories." And here are the release notes.

3 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No thanks by Icefyre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    True... m$ does seem to hold a monopoly on BSDs, though I'm not sure most people mind limiting that particular feature.

    --
    "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
  2. openbsd pre-order is out by raffe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenBSD 3.2 will be released on November 1, and pre-orders have started! Check openbsd.org

  3. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? by benedict · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did you read the source you linked to?

    > Early in 1977, Joy put together the "Berkeley
    > Software Distribution." This first distribution
    > included the Pascal system, and, in an obscure
    > subdirectory of the Pascal source, the editor ex.
    > Over the next year, Joy, acting in the capacity
    > of distribution secretary, sent out about thirty
    > free copies of the system.

    BSD at that point was a distribution of userland
    tools rather than an operating system, but it was
    libre and gratis. In 1977.

    --
    Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."